Web Server
Resume:
Rafat Syed Rizvi
Summary:
• IT
Professional with 7+years of experience in application deployment on Web Sphere
Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/V8.5 Environments.
• Experi
ence in administering WebSphere Application Server, and application software design,
development, testing and maintenance on various platforms.
• Experienced in the installation, support, configuration and maintenance of
Websphere Application Servers 4.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/V8.5.
• Performed WebpShere Commerce administration
• Expertise in Web Applications like IBM HTTP Server, IBM Websphere Application
Server (WAS), IBM MQ, IBM DB2 Server, Apache Tomcat Server.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuration, Performance Tuning and Administration of
WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in Maintenance of the WebSphere servers on different UNIX platforms
(AIX, Linux and Solaris) and setting up the development, testing and staging environment.
• Maintained standalone order management systems for the eCommerce information flow
of the backend applications.
• Generated plug-ins for IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet and IIS.
• Experience in trouble shooting, Webspherelog file managements and implementing
the workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering.
• Experi
ence in designed distributed queuing architectures and configured Web Sphere Message
Broker/ MQ Series/MQ Flow/MQM messaging middleware.
• Experi
ence with migrations of Web Sphere Application Server 5.x to 6.x and web services, and Web
sphere Application Development tool suite
• Expertise in Installation of Web Sphere Application Server (Base/Network Deployment)
on different Platforms (AIX/Linux/Sun Solaris/HP/)
• Experience in Installing configuring Web Sphere Portal Server 5.x,6.x/Process Server
6.x
• Involved in the Tuning and Monitoring Applications deployed on WAS using IBM
TPV/ITCAM.
• Five years of experience in setting up JDBC data source to communicate with RDBMS
(DB2, ORACLE9i, 10g, SQL Server PL/SQL).
Education:
• Bachelor of Commerce, University of Sindh- 2005
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Professional Certification:
• IBM Certified System Administrator – Web Sphere Application Server ND V7.0/V8.5
• Microsoft Certified Professional for Windows-NT Server.
Technical Skills
Technologies: Web Sphere Application server /5.x/6.x/7.x/V8.5 Web Sphere MQ 5.x6.x, Web
Sphere Portal 5.x, 6.x/Web Sphere Process Server, WBIMB, Broker
Languages: Visual Basic 6.0, C, C++, Java (core), JavaScript, HTML, J2EE
Databases: Oracle 7.x/8i/9i/10g, ITCAMS, SQL Server 2005, MS Access, DB2 UDB, DB2
Other Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Universe Basic, UNIX shell programming, XML, UML
Other Tools: IBM HTTP Server, Tivoli Performance Viewer (Resource Analyzer), Log Analyzer,
Site Minder 5.5, Sun One, iPlanet LDAP Server, SQL Plus, SQL* Loader, Import, Export
Operating / Systems: Windows 2000/XP/NT 4.0, HP-UX, As/400 SUN Solaris and AIX UNIX
Professional Experience
3M, St. Paul, MN Jan 2013 - Present
Web Sphere System Administrator
Responsibilities:
• 24/7 on call support for production environments of various enterprise applications.
• Installed and configured WAS V6.1, 7.0 production environments on AIX 5L, Linux and
Windows 2003 operating system.
• Installed and configured IBM Web Sphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1
on Windows 2003.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 2.x and Sun One Web Server 6.1
• Installed and configured WAS Plug-in for IBM HTTP Server, Sun One Web Server, and
MS IIS.
• Involved in installing Websphere Application Server 6.x on Solaris v10 andRed Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with Web Content Management.
• Involved in IBM WebSphere Edge Components Load Balancer to distribute load among
multiple Web servers.
• Installed and configured Tivoli Workload Scheduler on AIX 5.2.
• Worked with Apache – Tomcat, iPlanet, and HTTP Web Server.
• Applied patches and fixes for WAS V6.x, WAS Plug-in and IBM HTTP Server.
• Involved in the upgrade projects of various applications from WAS V5.1 environments to
WAS V6.x.
• Involved in daily support tasks for middleware environment like application deployments,
web content and configuration management.
• Involved in daily administration tasks like file system management, server reboot, system
performance and scheduling of cronjobs.
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• Involved in troubleshooting and providing technical assistance for I.T Help Desk during
various application outages and other issues.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering for High Availability (HA), Workload
Management (WLM) and load balancing.
• Implemented system monitoring of WebSphere servers using Tivoli Performance Viewer and
ITCAM.
• Configured user registry to use LDAP (Site minder 5.5 Policy Server) to implement security.
• Configured Web Sphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources,
connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions using Ant build scripts and administrative
console.
• Configured and managed Plug-in for Seibel Server on Sun One web server.
• Configured and provided WAS support for IBM File Net based applications.
• Configured and provided WAS support for IBM ITIM based applications.
• Configured and provided WAS support for IBM Content Manager
• Developed and modified existing scripts for day to day WAS administrative tasks using
Jython and JACL.
• Automated the administrative tasks using shell and cron scripts.
• Participated in the D.R Exercises and documents update process for various applications
Environments: JAVA, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.x/1.3.x, SunOne Web Server 6.1 / 7.0, IIS, DB2,
Oracle, Siebel, Web Sphere Portal, Web Sphere BISF, IBM FileNet, IBM ITIM, IBM Content
Manager, Tivoli Performance Viewer, ITCAM, AIX, Linux,, Windows200x.
Johnson Controls, Milwaukee, WI Jun 2010 - Dec 2012
Web Sphere System Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Handled Web server / Application server 6.1 installations, support and performance
monitoring for all applications running on the company’s Website.
• Involved in Migration of WAS 5.1 to 6.1 UNIX base Environment.
• Administered Web Sphere MQ with Web Sphere MQ explorer/Services.
• Installed and configure web logic 8.2 on windows base environment.
• Designed and implemented a migration from a Single Server to Network Deployment
environment as well as a 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade.
• Planned and viewed web sphere Application Server applying patches and plug-ins for Web
Sphere Application Server.
• Involved in designing Web Sphere Application Server load balancing, Workload
Management (WLM), horizontal and vertical scaling.
• IBM Edge Server for reverse proxy in DMZ and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Handled the installation and design of Web Sphere MQ/Broker in complex environment.
• Involved in troubleshooting of Web Sphere App server and IHS Web Server.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of Web Sphere Application Server (WAS)
Advanced edition in a workload managed cluster.
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• Involved in development of B2B and B2E web sphere portal 5.1.
• Maintained four CA/Integrity Site Minder Policy Servers running on Windows 2000.
• Configured user registry to use LDAP (Site minder 5.5 Policy Server) to implement security
based upon the roles defined in Web Sphere.
• Migrated Sun One LDAP directory to ADAM LDAP directory using Site minder Policy Server
5.5 also setup failover and load balance.
• Defined channels using SSL (Secure socket layer) certificates.
• Maintained E publisher documents access in live link using Transit Central server, Transit
Central Scheduler and HTML Transit.
Environment: Java, JSP, EJB, WSAD, IBM Web Sphere Application Server 5.0/6.x, IBM HTTP
Server, I DB2 UDB, Oracle, UNIX, Win2000, win 2003, siteminder
American Medical & Supply Company, Springfield IL Sep 2008 - May 2010
Web Sphere System Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Installed and configured IBM Web Sphere Application Server 5.0, JDBC drivers and Servlets
engines on AIX, Linux and Solaris and also created user roles and groups for securing the
resources using local operating system authentication.
• Worked on Web Sphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet
Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool.
• Involved in supporting Web sphere Business integration Message Broker.
• Applied patches and plug-ins for Web Sphere Application Server.
• Configured user registry to use LDAP (IBM Tivoli Directory Server) to implement security
based upon the roles defined in Web Sphere.
• Set up JDBC involve in RDBM, SQL/PL.
• Created, tested and deployed J2EE applications on Web Sphere Application Server using
WSAD tools.
• Used IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Configured Workload Management (WLM) using models and clones.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for
Web Sphere.
• Configured Web Sphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection
pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
Environment: Java, JSP, EJB, Visual Age, WSAD, IBM Web Sphere Application Server 4.0/5.0,
IBM MQ Series, DB2 UDB, Oracle, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Linux), Win2000
Zurich North America, Schaumburg, IL March 2007 - Aug 2008
Web Sphere System Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Installed and configured IBM Web Sphere Application Server 5.1 on AIX and Linux.
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• Involved in installation, configuration, migration, and clustering and user management on
AIX/Linux.
• Installed and configuring third party software necessary to test the DB2.
• Involved in setting up of IBM Edge Server for reverse proxy in DMZ and Network
Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Involved in designing Web Sphere Application Server load balancing, Workload
Management (WLM), horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Responsible for Web server and Application server installation, support and performance
monitoring for all applications running on the company’s Website.
• Developed Web Sphere Application Server regular administration tasks automated by using
WSCP and XML Configuration scripts.
• Played an active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce
performance bottleneck by enhanced performance ensuring upstream queuing.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for
Web Sphere Application Servers.
• Applied software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases
current.
• Configured Web Sphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources,
connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions. Deployed Session and Entity EJB’s in Web
Sphere.
• Set up application bindings for EJB JNDI names, Data sources for entity beans, EJB
references, and virtual host bindings for Web modules.
Environment: Linux, XML, JDBC, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server and Web
sphere Application Server, Oracle, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, and Linux)
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